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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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